Resilience among Employed Physicians and Mid-Level Practitioners in Upstate New York.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the factors associated with resilience among medical professionals.

Data sources/study setting

Administrative information from a rural health care network (1 academic medical center, 6 hospitals, 31 clinics, and 20 school health centers) was triangulated with self-report data from 308 respondents (response rate = 65.1 percent) to a 9/2013-1/2014 survey among practitioners serving a nine-county 5,600-square-mile area.

Study design

A cross-sectional questionnaire survey comprising valid measures of resilience, practice meaningfulness, satisfaction, and risk/uncertainty intolerance, nested within a prospective, community-based project.

Data collection/extraction methods

The sampling frame included practitioners on institutional payroll, ex

SUBMITTER: Waddimba AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5034205 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature